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HEN Team Lead
The closing date is 27 June 2025
Are you a dietitian who is passionate about supporting patients with home enteral nutrition (HEN)? Looking for a career development and ready to take on leading a small dedicated HEN team? We have an exciting opportunity for a band 7 team lead dietitian, to lead our HEN service across our 3 sites and community area. You will have your own caseload of complex HEN patients, and work as an integral part of the adult dietetic service.
You will have an active role in the training of dietetic students, we have close links with the Universities of Winchester and Surrey.
Main duties of the job
Lead the HEN service within Hampshire Hospitals Trust, working across 3 main hospital sites supporting community patients with enteral feeding tubes. To coordinate the nutrition and dietetic service for patients who are enterally fed and ensure high standards of care in line with evidence-based best practice and national guidelines. To work as an essential part of the adult dietetic team to support patients, carers and families. To manage a caseload of HEN patients, using advanced dietetic skills to complete routine and emergency tube changes in the community. To provide specialist education to other staff and students, developing and maintaining basic specialist knowledge and skills.
About us
Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.
Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.
We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.
The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.
Job responsibilities
As lead dietitian for the HEN team within Hampshire Hospitals Trust, work is primarily in the community, and based across the 3 main hospital sites.
Please see job description for further details regarding main responsibilities
Person Specification
Qualifications
* BSc Nutrition and dietetics or equivalent
* Registered as a dietitian with the HCPC
* Member of a relevant specialist interest group
* completed specific post graduate course - for example history taking and physical assessment unit
Experience
* Experience of a broad range of clinical dietetic experience including home enteral nutrition
* Evidence of implementing significant changes or service developments that promote good practice
* Experience in leadership and / or project management
* Experience of staff development planning, implementing departmental business plans
Skills
* Car driver with access to a vehicle for work use
* Motivational interviewing/ behaviour change skills
* Highly specialised clinical skills relevant to home enteral nutrition, such as being able to perform routine tube changes or provide stoma care advice
* confidence in using, manipulating and analysing data
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
£46,148 to £52,809 a yearper annum pro rata
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